Author: Lindsey Duncan
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Song Styles
I’ve always thought that song lyrics, out of context, can make excellent story prompts for writers. For my flash / poetry boot camp, I took a line from a Rihanna song – “I’m lost, you’ve got me looking for the rest of me” – though I didn’t end up…
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Song Styles
New year, new car CDs? Not really, actually: I swapped them out mid-December. I’ve stopped sharing my other themes, seeing as my music choices wander between the obscure and the obvious, but I do like sharing my odd thought process fo…
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Wednesday Wanderings
The end of the year was tumultuous, hence my radio silence over the past few weeks. I’ve never been much for New Year’s resolutions, though I do swear by setting goals; I simply don’t hold much stock in waiting until or focusing on the first of t…
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Wednesday Wanderings
This is why we can’t have nice things, Christmas edition.So one of my mother’s favorite Christmas desserts, and a holiday tradition in our house for many years, is red velvet cake with boiled buttercream. I’ve never been a big fan; the frosting i…
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Sunday … Shopping?
Tis the season for … frantic commercialism? Perhaps not, but if you’re looking for a gift to give to support a starving artist, perhaps consider:My contemporary fantasy novel FlowORThe traditional music of Rolling Of The Stone, from Scottish to…
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Thursday Thoughts
(It’s been a crazy few weeks and my work schedule has been temporarily flipped around, which means I’m working my normal ten hour shift on Wednesdays … hence the lack of a mid-week post.)I posted a few weeks ago about my recent short story publicatio…
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Song Styles
A few weeks ago, I asked about favorite Christmas carols, old and new. (And I would still love to hear the answers!) I just have to share one of mine, a song that makes me grin no matter how much of a Grinch or Scrooge I’m feeling, and one …
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Song Styles
Surgeburnt is, in many ways, the protagonist against the world: she’s up against larger problems to which there are no solutions (or at least, there seem to be none). But there are specific antagonists with which she clashes – and one …
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Anatomy Of An Idea: For As Many Dawns
We interrupt your (generally) regularly scheduled blog post to bring up a new publication of mine and talk a little bit about the inspiration. You can read it here:For As Many Dawns(I do recommend you read the story before this post, if you do in…
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Song Styles
With the holiday season nearly upon us, already upon us, or in full swing (depending on who you ask), I’d like to pose the question to you: what are your favorite tunes? It doesn’t have to be Christmas – I’ve learned the Hanukkah tune Seviv…